On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 22:17, Niall Douglas wrote:
IDC will almost certainly be calculating the rate by dividing the total number of viruses by the total number of installations, reasoning that the more people are using a system then the more viruses will be written for it.
I've seen an article debunking this mith almost to a mathematical level, proving the number of installations has little to do with virus making and spreading.
Rui